IVOS 2: ΚΕΙΜΕΝΑ,ΕΙΚΟΝΕΣ

(...)  Τhousands  of Alevi Kurds[2] and Zazas were killed and thousands more forced into exile, depopulating the province. A key component of the Turkification process was the policy of massive population resettlement, a result of the 1934 Law on Resettlement ('İskân Kanunu' Law No.2510, 13 June 1934) [3] , a policy targeting the region of Dersim as one of its first test cases with disastrous consequences for the local population.[4] Three types of resettlement zones were defined in the resettlement law as follows: districts to be evacuated for health, economic, cultural, political and security reasons and where settlement was forbidden; districts where the population was to be transferred and resettled for the purposes of assimilation to Turkish culture; and, districts where an increase of the population having 'Turkish culture' was recommended. (...)   (1) Tens of thousands of people were slaughtered by Turkish army to suppress the Dersim Rebelli

The march was a first, according to Kışanak . Election impossible in current situation, says Turkey's pro-Kurdish   Recent detentions in the predominantly Kurdish Southeast, which prompted a 20,000-strong protest march, and other related developments threaten the safety of the upcoming general election, the former co-chair of the country’s main pro-Kurdish party has said. “If the Kurds are walking to the borders [in protest] as a result of the pressure, thinking that they will leave if they are not wanted, this shows the situation has reached a boiling point ” Gültan Kışanak Gültan Kışanak  ,a current deputy candidate for Parliament , told the Hürriyet Daily News & Economic Review. If the prime minister and the government continue to ignore the concerns of the country’s Kurds and fail to take precautions in the region, the safety of the June 12 vote could be at risk, added Kışanak, who formerly served as the co-leader of the Peace and Democracy Party, o

  -Our teachers taught us Turkish. We speak Kurdish  and don’t know Turkish...   A day in the life of six teachers, 265 students in  Turkey   The classrooms at the elementary school in the small, poor village of Böğürtlen are filled to the brim, with just six teachers for 265 students. Complicating their task is the fact that the majority of the pupils, even the smartest ones, start school not understanding a word their teachers say. The combination of Turkish-speaking teachers and Kurdish-speaking students is not uncommon in Southeast Turkey, which, along with the rest of the country, is celebrating Teacher’s Day on Wednesday. Both languages echo through the Böğürtlen Village Elementary School, a small building amid flat-roofed, gray stone houses in a village of 2,000 people set among brown and yellow fields 125 kilometers outside of Şanlıurfa. The 265 Kurdish children being educated in combined classes are learning reading and writing in Turkish. Only 100 of the students

The unmarked grave at Antoura for the bones that were found there in 1993 The US wants to deny that Turkey's slaughter of 1.5 million Armenians in 1915 was genocide. But the evidence is there, in a hilltop orphanage near Beirut Living proof of the Armenian genocide Robert Fisk ''INDEPENDENT' ' Tuesday, 9 March 2010 It's only a small grave, a rectangle of cheap concrete marking it out, blessed by a flourish of wild yellow lilies. Inside are the powdered bones and skulls and bits of femur of up to 300 children, Armenian orphans of the great 1915 genocide who died of cholera and starvation as the Turkish authorities tried to "Turkify" them in a converted Catholic college high above Beirut. But for once, it is the almost unknown story of the surviving 1,200 children – between three and 15 years old – who lived in the crowded dormitory of this ironically beautiful cut-stone school that proves that the Turks did indeed commit genocide against the Armen

Banned pro-Kurdish DTP appeals to European court Former members of the pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP), recently closed down by the Constitutional Court, have filed a case with the European Court of Human Rights in which they argue that the Constitutional Court is not impartial since it was established by a constitution drafted by the military junta that took over the government on Sept. 12, 1980. Former DTP and current Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) Şırnak Deputy Hasip Kaplan submitted the petition to the court yesterday, the pro-Kurdish Fırat news agency reported. The lawsuit comprises three complaints, one of which will be filed in the name of the corporate personality of the party while the remaining two will concern Ahmet Türk and Aysel Tuğluk, two former DTP deputies whom the Constitutional Court banned from politics. The Constitutional Court decided to close the DTP and ban 37 of its members from politics, including DTP leader Türk and DTP deputy Tuğluk, on

                                                        Kurdish-inhabited area Of course, they aren't  ... Oguz Turks A Turk journalist and a very good and honest analysis of the situtation in Turkey    ... The fundamental design flaw of the Turkish Republic     In the beginning, the state said, 'Let there be no Kurds.' And it hoped that everybody would see this official light, and see that it was good On May 1, 1920, Mustafa Kemal, who would soon be the founder of the Turkish Republic, delivered an important speech at the Parliament in Ankara. “The people who have formed this supreme assembly are not just Turks,” he said. “They are also Circassians, Kurds or Laz. They are all different components of Islam. They all respect each other, and each other’s ethnic, social and geographic rights.” That was the time of Turkey’s War of Liberation (1919-1922). As the leader of this national struggle to save the homeland from European invaders, Mustafa Kemal used